This is a beautiful full service restaurant in one Southern Alberta's nicest towns. Being very close to Calgary is a plus, not only do they have a great local clientele, they also have many regulars from Calgary. The Cowboy Trail draws tourists from all over the world to experience Alberta's Western lifestyle, and the summer traffic in Cochrane is very busy.

The menu has something for everyone and the room could easily be modified to suit any type of cuisine or concept. There is a full basement with LOTS of storage, refrigeration and prep area, as well as a large office upstairs for the owner. The kitchen is large and capable of good volume, and the dining room is large and open with nice high ceilings, there are also some smaller areas...

This is a beautiful full-service restaurant in one Southern Alberta's nicest towns. Being very close to Calgary is a plus, not only do they have a great local clientele, they also have many regulars from Calgary. The Cowboy Trail draws tourists from all over the world to experience Alberta's Western lifestyle, and the summer traffic in Cochrane is very busy.

The menu has something for everyone and the room could easily be modified to suit any type of cuisine or concept. There is a full basement with LOTS of storage, refrigeration and prep area, as well as a large office upstairs for the owner. The kitchen is large and capable of good volume, and the dining room is large and open with nice high ceilings, there are also some smaller areas...

Where can you find a fully renovated, 6200+ square foot Restaurant, Saloon & Dancehall for this kind of price?! This room was completely redone in 2013, top to bottom. The bars were all rebuilt, the kitchen is spectacular, huge and able to handle the busiest evening or lunch hour. It is also perfect for catering large off-site functions as well.

The rest of the room is in fantastic shape, with a large open floor plan, a stage and dance floor. The potential for this facility is awesome, lots of businesses surrounding it for a busy lunch hour and the weekends are where you make the big money!

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$847 per employee per week or 75% of up to $58,700 salary, whichever is less

Still retroactive to March 15 (so far)

Expectation is that you don’t cut employee wages

Business must demonstrate/prove a minimum revenue loss of 30%

Federal government will be introducing severe penalties for abuse of the program

Application process expected to be announced within the next 2 weeks

No limit on business size

For those who were considering using the job-sharing option, this is now, for most businesses, a better option.

Next Steps: I have started building detailed 90-day business financial plans for some of you. This provides a specific list of actions based on your own financial P&L statements that includes estimating the impact of using the government programs and includes a list of other actions you can do to help your business weather the storm. If any of you are interested in having this done for your business, contact me.

This is the last week you have to re-plan your businesses for the next 2-3 months to stay in front of the situation. If you don’t know what you need to be doing and how much of it you need to be doing, please contact me. I want to see you all survive this event as best as possible!

Next 2 weeks, the focus will need to shift to full-implementation of that plan and start looking for short-term business opportunities with customers who are less impacted by COVID-19. This is a very tactical that looks a lot like war-time situation management. Even with a plan, the situation going forward will be fluid (some good, some bad).

Later in April, your planning will need to focus on re-positioning your businesses to be ready to sling-shot out of this event!

Please continue to pay strict attention to all of the hygiene/safety recommendations and emotional/mental health issues discussed here over the past two weeks! Let’s do everything we can to keep our employees, customers, suppliers an colleagues healthy so we can all get back to work faster!

Drift Spa is a chic, comfortable Nail and Day Spa located in South Calgary at the Meadows Mile on Blackfoot Trail, surrounded by Calgary’s most exclusive automotive dealerships. It was built with comfort and style in mind, the contemporary touches and colors are very nice. The finishing’s are all top of the line and it shows throughout the space.
The space could be redesigned to provide a wider variety of Spa & Esthetics services, including Facials, Hair Removal, Laser treatments etc, and would do well with a solid Hair Styling program as well. There is also a café/coffee bar on site.

In talking to many of you this week, the number one emerging issue is stress. The rapid rate of change being imposed on us, our employees, suppliers and customers is unprecedented. The uncertainty regarding our health, both physical and financial, stemming from a dangerous virus racing around the globe is overwhelming many people.

The result is often emotional – anxiety, fear, and depression. This in turn impacts morale and mental health, both yours and everyone you work with – the ones working on-site, the ones working remotely and the ones now on EI waiting to come back.

They need your leadership. This is not the zombie apocalypse because we can do a lot to get this under control. Four things to consider:

Calgary and Edmonton are very different from New York or Milan who have 7.5-10,000 people per km2. We have only 1,300 (natural advantage in physical distancing).

Calgary and other Albertans are generally following physical distancing and self-isolation, except for a few ass-hole snow birds who now face fines of up to $750,000 and 6 months in jail if they don’t go straight home and self-isolate (today’s news).

Alberta has been aggressively testing our people at four times the rate of Quebec. We got ahead of this thing early.

Toilet paper is on it’s way. They are making more.

Human beings are hard-wired to be social. Remember to reach out to a friend, colleague, employee, customer or supplier to see how they are doing (phone, text, facetime, video meetings, email even). There is no reason physical distancing needs to become human isolation.

Here are three resources to help you deal with stressed out employees, colleagues, suppliers and customers. More in the coming days:

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